Thankfully, Rich Elliot of the Connecticut Post noticed the exchange and asked Auriemma about it after UConn's 76-70 loss. The coach said it was a playful moment:

"She was staring at my butt and she was commenting on it and I said, 'Really? How about yours?' and she went, `Yeah, look at it,' and I went (slap), I'll teach you a lesson. And then she started talking about how she only dated Italians her whole life and that she wanted me to set her up with some Italians and I said, `The Italians I send to see you aren't going to date you.' We've had a long and great relationship since, gosh, she was an assistant at Louisiana Tech. It goes back a long ways.

If you want to get your knickers in a twist about this, save your breath, please. As long as Mulkey was on board with the squeeze (and we've seen nothing to suggest otherwise), there's nothing here except a phenomenal picture, an excellent press conference response and a little game of "pin the tail on the pantsuit" between friends.